On April 1, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser issued an opinion asserting that President Donald Trump “need not further comply” with the Presidential Records Act of 1978, arguing it is unconstitutional in its entirety.

A new blog post from Patrick Eddington, a senior fellow in homeland security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute, details the dangers this poses to election integrity, writing in part:

You cannot easily prosecute what you cannot document. You cannot document what was never required to exist. You cannot hold power accountable when power has declared itself exempt from the only law that required it to leave a record. That is what an April Fools’ Day OLC legal opinion looks like when it is not a joke.

To speak with Eddington further on Gaiser’s opinion, contact Cato PR at pr@​cato.​org.